Title: Custom User Sort Order
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Custom User Sort Order

 *  [ustechninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ustechninja/)
 * (@ustechninja)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-user-sort-order/)
 * I’m working on sorting users in a specific order. I know I can use the user_meta
   under order_by but the problem is I can’t for the life of me figure out where
   to add the custom meta. Anyone happen to have any advice on a plugin where I 
   can add a custom field for use in meta sorting, IE 1, 2, 3, 4?
 * PS. I tried advanced custom fields, but once activated there’s nowhere to modify
   them!

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 *  [Suren Dias](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surendias/)
 * (@surendias)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-user-sort-order/#post-6152446)
 * If your trying to sort the users on the theme it can be done by adding the sort
   key to WP_Query where your displaying them.
 * Is this a custom post type we are talking about or the default user list on WordPress?
 *  Thread Starter [ustechninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ustechninja/)
 * (@ustechninja)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-user-sort-order/#post-6152572)
 * It’s a template that’s part of the theme for one of the pages. I saw the wp_query,
   but again, I don’t have a field, and can’t find how to add a field, for it to
   go off of.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ustechninja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ustechninja/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-user-sort-order/#post-6152572)
 * Status: not resolved

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